Stanley S. Hughes

Stanley Smith Hughes (29 October 1918-5 January 2001) was a Colonel of the US Marine Corps during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Biography
Stanley Smith Hughes was born in Elmira, New York, in the United States on 29 October 1918. Hughes served in World War II at the 1944 Battle of Gloucester Bay and the Battle of Peleliu and became a colonel of the US Marine Corps. World War II earned him two Navy Crosses and a Silver Star. During the Vietnam War he commanded the American forces defending Hue City from Tran Van Quang's NVA (North Vietnamese army) in 1968 and won the Legion of Merit. He died on 5 January 2001 in Rome, Pennsylvania.